Libro No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates De George Farah

portada No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Seven Stories

Autor

George Farah

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.60

ISBN

9781583226308

ISBN13

9781583226308

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx - c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia de américa

No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates

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Broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, the presidential debates are the Super Bowl of politics. A good performance before the cameras can vault a contender to the front of the pack, while a gaffe spells national embarrassment and can savage a candidacy. The slim margin for error has led the two major parties to seekand achieve, under the aegis of the bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debatestight control through scripting, severe time limits, and the exclusion of third-party candidates. In No Debate, author and lobbyist George Farah argues that these staged recitations make a mockery of free and fair presidential elections. With urgency and clarity, this book reviews the history of presidential debates, the impact of the debates since the advent of television, the role of the League of Women Voters, the antidemocratic activity of the CPD, and the specific ways that the Republicans and Democrats collude to remove all spontaneity from the debates themselves. The author presents the complete text of a previously unreleased secret document between the Republicans and Democrats that reveals the degree to which the two partiesnot the CPDdictate the terms of the debates. In the final chapter, Farah lays out a compelling strategy for restoring the presidential debates as a nonpartisan, unscripted, public events that help citizensnot corporations or campaign managersdecide who is going to run the White House.